BEIJING
\nChina warned Washington and Seoul against \u201cprovoking confrontation\u201d with North Korea on Thursday, after President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart said Pyongyang would face the \u201cend\u201d of its leadership if it uses its nuclear arsenal.
\n\u201cAll parties should face up to the crux of the (Korean) peninsula issue and play a constructive role in promoting a peaceful settlement of the issue,\u201d foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.
\nShe urged against \u201cdeliberately stirring up tensions, provoking confrontation and playing up threats.\u201d
\nAt a summit in Washington, Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol made clear that if the isolated dictatorship in North Korea attacked the South or the United States, the response would be devastating.
\nThe two sides also agreed that the US security shield for South Korea would be strengthened in the face of the nuclear-armed North\u2019s missile tests.
\nBeijing condemned that decision Thursday, saying Washington \u201cignores regional security and insists on exploiting the peninsula issue to create tension.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat the US is doing … provokes confrontation between camps, undermines the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the strategic interests of other countries,\u201d Mao said.
\nUS moves, she added, \u201caggravate tensions on the peninsula, undermine regional peace and stability, and run counter to the goal of denuclearization on the peninsula.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BEIJING China warned Washington and Seoul against \u201cprovoking confrontation\u201d with North Korea on Thursday, after President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart said Pyongyang would face the \u201cend\u201d of its leadership if it uses its nuclear arsenal. \u201cAll parties should face up to the crux of the (Korean) peninsula issue and play a constructive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10999],"class_list":{"0":"post-327913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-mao-ning"},"yoast_head":"\n